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3280
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Ben Tennille is the state's first Superior Court Judge for complex business cases, a position created in 1996. However, a few issues are unresolved, including location of the court, who'll pay for it, and a lack of secretarial help.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 6, June 1997,
p36-37, 39-40, por
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3315
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When the Massenburg family of Franklin County found they could no longer make a good living on farmland that had been in the family for generations, they built a golf course. Bull Creek is one of only a half-dozen black-owned courses in the country.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 3, Mar 1997,
p48-53, il, por
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3369
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William Royal is president of Royal Park Uniforms, Inc., the nation's largest maker of school uniform jumpers and shirts. With 130 employees utilizing a 66,000-square-foot facility, it is Caswell County's second largest private employer.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Sept 1997,
p73-74, il
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3431
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Gerald Johnson of the CHARLOTTE POST and Ernest Pitt of the WINSTON-SALEM CHRONICLE have joined forces to develop a chain of Afro-American newspapers throughout the state.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Sept 1997,
p20,22-23, por
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3432
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A difficult merger and a government probe into billing practices have left Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings in Burlington, a provider of diagnostic tests, in financial trouble. Stock has fallen from $13 a share in 1995 to $2.63 in 1997.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Sept 1997,
p28-33,35,37-38, il
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Record #:
3445
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By cooperating rather than competing, Memorial Mission Medical Center and St. Joseph's Hospital in Asheville will cut costs and expand services, including additional clinics and outreach programs, from the $75 million in anticipated savings.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Sept 1997,
p40-43,45-46, il
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Record #:
3455
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In May, 1997, Douglas Battery Manufacturing Company of Winston-Salem was named co-winner of the National Family Business of the Year Award, for companies employing over 250. The 75 year-old business is the nation's sixth-largest maker of car batteries.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 8, Aug 1997,
p12-13, il
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3456
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The state's top seventy-five public companies are ranked according to their May, 1997, market value. The top three, NationsBank, First Union, and Wachovia, total a market value of $81 billion, or fifty-four percent of the top 75's total.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 8, Aug 1997,
p33-40, il
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3457
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The pay among the chief executive officers of the state's top seventy-five public companies varies, ranging from $14 million to just over $100,000.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 8, Aug 1997,
p42-45,48-53, il
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Record #:
3479
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Anthony Civello began working as a pharmacist for the Thrift Drug Co. in 1965, and rose to the executive level. In 1997, he left to become CEO and co-owner of 165 drugstores across the Carolinas -- Kerr Drug Inc. -- the state's third-largest drugstore chain.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p105, por
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Record #:
3481
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Temple Sloan started General Parts, Inc. in Raleigh in 1961. Today the private company is the second-largest wholesale distributor in the country and markets parts under the CARQUEST name. Revenues of $1.2 billion are projected for 1997.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p58-59,61-63,65-69, il
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3482
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Nearly gone by the 20th century, beavers were reintroduced in the state in the 1930s and spread across the counties. They are a gnawing concern to the timber industry, but a boon to Paul Dobbins of Princeton, one of the state's last full-time trappers.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p70-73,75-81, il
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3483
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Margaret Urquhart became president of Winston-Salem-based Lowe's Food Stores, Inc., in 1995. One of her goals is to make the 57-store chain more customer friendly - for example, by filling, for a fee, call-ahead grocery orders.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p104-105, il
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3485
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Ed Swartz is president of Sanford's Static Control Components, Inc. and Santronics, Inc. In 1996, Lee County's third-largest employer had sales of $105 million. The company produces products for the electronics industry, including aluminized bags.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p36-39,42,44-45, il
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Record #:
3486
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The state's top 100 private companies are ranked, using 1996 revenues. General Parts, Inc., a Raleigh-based auto-parts distributor, replaced Klaussner Furniture Industries, Inc. as the top company. Klaussner had been No. 1 since 1993.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 17 Issue 10, Oct 1997,
p47,49-51,53,55-57, il
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